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Rated Illuminae 8/10

Wants to read The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity

Rated The Way Things Work 10/10

Added Babylon, South Dakota to Read Books

Wants to read Between the World and Me

Wants to read Lightning Rods

Rated The Watchers 2/10

If you cut out all the unsubtle, repetitive, declarations about the character's personality traits, this book would be a novella.

Wants to read The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

Rated Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System 10/10

An interest POV into the early days of Android development. I appreciated the details and the interview-driven narration.

Reviewed The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind

<div>The book is structured as a list of facts, not very engaging. Writing was good and explained concepts in an easily-digestible way, but did not kept me engaged.</div>

Wants to read Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

Added Privacy's Defender to Read Books

Rated Marlena 8/10

A dark and moody story of the teenage friendship between two young women and the weight that the loss of one friend casts over the rest of the other friend's life. Reminiscent of [b:The Girls|26893819|The Girls|Emma Cline|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1492065338s/26893819.jpg|42856015] and [b:Eileen|23453099|Eileen|Ottessa Moshfegh|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1479545528s/23453099.jpg|43014905] in tone and structure; like those books, this one is presented as retrospective, and like them it concerns drugs, violence, depression, the families we're stuck with and the families we create, and the incredible intensity of the attachments young women make with one another. Mild spoiler: it sets up as though there's a ~twist~, a mystery or puzzle that gets solved, but really doesn't play out that way (not a bad thing, just don't expect [b:Gone Girl|19288043|Gone Girl|Gillian Flynn|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1397056917s/19288043.jpg|13306276] or whatever).

Rated Carl's Doomsday Scenario 8/10

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but not quite as much as the first. There were the typical hilarious parts that made me laugh loudly as I was reading, but it didn't seem quite as engaging as the first. I can't quite put my finger on "why."

Alas, the show WILL go on, because I'm quite invested in the future of Carl, Donut, Mordecai, and Mongo.

Wants to read De tweede sekse

Wants to read Yearbook

Rated Dune 8/10

Rated Time Shelter 8/10

Rated Canto yo y la montaña baila 10/10

Rated Normal People 8/10

Rated Los nombres propios 8/10

Finished reading Het Dossier

Rated Sed 8/10

Rated Estupor y temblores 8/10